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Catalogue of the Wightman Memorial Art Gallery in the library of the University of Notre Dame (1900)

Wightman Memorial Art Gallery (Notre Dame, Ind.), Gerrer, Gregory, 1867- · Notre Dame, Ind. : [s.n.] · leaf 76

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earned and judicious; rejecting all superfluity and ostenta-tion, he aimed at the higher qualities of correctness and simplic-ity. Although he never soared to the supreme height of Rubens,his works possess both grandeur and dignity. His coloring ischaste and tender, resembling in its carnations the… … [69] fatigable worker, he filled the churches of Brussels and itsenvirons with his pictures. When eighty-two years old heestablished himself in Ghent where, notwithstanding his age,he painted with extraordinary ardor and was responsible foran art movement in that city. His works are found…

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